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we urge you to go to the phone right now as we honor the life of aaron swartz aaron swartz, a computer program, social justice activist, rider, who died at the age of 26 on friday. he committed
we urge you to go to the phone right now as we honor the life of aaron swartz aaron swartz, a computer program, social justice activist, rider, who died at the age of 26 on friday. he committed
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the relatives of the internet activist and programmer aaron swartz have said his death was a product of the failed u.s. justice system the twenty six year old co-founder of social news website reddit committed suicide facing decades in prison on hacking charges for allegedly stealing and publishing scientific documents online earlier my colleague spoke to a representative of the pirate party from the berlin parliament fabio reinhardt who says the potential punishment for swartz was far too harsh but u.s. attorney's office pursued a spread of charges possibly leading to over thirty years in prison and a million dollar fine this alternately for downloading and re distributing mit academic papers do you think the punishment was justified. no i definitely don't think this plan of disarmament is justified it is completely ridiculous people are being charged with fifty thousand dollars fines for just are not into music from the internet or into what was putting pirates on the internet that should have been on the internet. a long time ago and actually j.-star. where the fire came from and
the relatives of the internet activist and programmer aaron swartz have said his death was a product of the failed u.s. justice system the twenty six year old co-founder of social news website reddit committed suicide facing decades in prison on hacking charges for allegedly stealing and publishing scientific documents online earlier my colleague spoke to a representative of the pirate party from the berlin parliament fabio reinhardt who says the potential punishment for swartz was far too...
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meanwhile, a lawyer who represented aaron swartz on hacking charges said he told federal prosecutors a year ago that swartz was a risk of suicide. attorney andrew good told the associated press -- about our monday show aaron swartz featuring his own speech and the commentary of his longtime friend and mentor harvard law professor larry lessig, you can go to our website at democracynow.org aaron swartz will be buried today in chicago. the indigenous led idle no more movement in canada has called a new global day of action for january 28 following a series of events on friday around the world. organizers say more than 130 actions were held in canada and worldwide in solidarity with idle no more's call for political transformation, indigenous rights, and environmental justice. a key figure in the movement, chief theresa spence, was due to meet with canadian prime minister stephen harper and other first nations leaders, but pulled out of the meeting over the exclusion of canada's governor general and in solidarity with friday's protests. spence remains a liquid diet only hunger strike. t
meanwhile, a lawyer who represented aaron swartz on hacking charges said he told federal prosecutors a year ago that swartz was a risk of suicide. attorney andrew good told the associated press -- about our monday show aaron swartz featuring his own speech and the commentary of his longtime friend and mentor harvard law professor larry lessig, you can go to our website at democracynow.org aaron swartz will be buried today in chicago. the indigenous led idle no more movement in canada has called...
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at the memorial, aaron swartz's partner, taren stinebrickner- kauffman, called for prosecutors to be held accountable. >> on last friday he face the prospect of yet another three months of uncertainty of ups and downs of being forced by the government to spend every fiber of his being on this damnable, since this trial. with no guarantee could exonerate himself at the end of it. he was so scared and so frustrated and so desperate and more than anything, just so weary. i think he just could not take it another day. aarib would have loved to have been here because of the last week, phoenix's are already rising from his ashes. the best possible legacy for him is for all of us to go out from here today and do everything we can to make the world a better place. a thousand flowers are blooming in his name already. some of the most important and will be fighting, david siegel, and many others, are organizing around u.s. attorney's office that must be held accountable for its actions. >> taren stinebrickner-kauffman speaking at the public memorial for aaron swartz. "democracy now!" livestrea
at the memorial, aaron swartz's partner, taren stinebrickner- kauffman, called for prosecutors to be held accountable. >> on last friday he face the prospect of yet another three months of uncertainty of ups and downs of being forced by the government to spend every fiber of his being on this damnable, since this trial. with no guarantee could exonerate himself at the end of it. he was so scared and so frustrated and so desperate and more than anything, just so weary. i think he just...
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late internet freedom activist aaron swartz was laid to rest on tuesday at a funeral near chicago. he killed themself on friday, weeks before he was to go on trial for downloading millions of articles provided by the nonprofit research service jstor. he was facing 35 years in prison, a penalty supporters of shorts called excessively harsh. speaking to mourners, his father robert continued to blame prosecutors for his son's death, saying he was "killed by the government." in response to the family, the husband of the prosecutor carmen ortiz has publicly criticized them on twitter, clamming shorts was offered a six-month plea deal. the husband, and ibm executive, has since deleted his twitter profile. in washington, democratic congressmember zoe lofgren of california has introduced a measure in honor of aaron swartz. logfren's bill that aaron's law would modify the computer fraud and abuse act to omit terms of service breaches. in a statement, lofgren said -- more than a thousand school bus drivers and matrons have gone on strike in new york city in a dispute over job security and th
late internet freedom activist aaron swartz was laid to rest on tuesday at a funeral near chicago. he killed themself on friday, weeks before he was to go on trial for downloading millions of articles provided by the nonprofit research service jstor. he was facing 35 years in prison, a penalty supporters of shorts called excessively harsh. speaking to mourners, his father robert continued to blame prosecutors for his son's death, saying he was "killed by the government." in response...
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the family of in freedom activist aaron swartz has blamed the u.s. criminal justice system for as a twenty six year old co-founder of social news website reddit committed suicide on friday by hanging himself schwartz faced criminal hacking charges which carried a potential sentence of more than thirty years in jail for downloading and publishing academic papers online is letters that claim the harsh era of charges contributed to his death saying the young activist was driven to the edge by the government. and the court ordered the retrial of the ousted president hosni mubarak it follows an appeal he lodged against his life sentence barack was to administer also want to retrial but both found guilty over the deaths of protesters during the arab spring of two thousand and eleven despite today's ruling both are expected to remain in custody. i just a few minutes here we are parts of the moscow kremlin hidden from public view. because of recent events guns have a good again become a big issue all over the usa both sides are throwing their talking point a
the family of in freedom activist aaron swartz has blamed the u.s. criminal justice system for as a twenty six year old co-founder of social news website reddit committed suicide on friday by hanging himself schwartz faced criminal hacking charges which carried a potential sentence of more than thirty years in jail for downloading and publishing academic papers online is letters that claim the harsh era of charges contributed to his death saying the young activist was driven to the edge by the...
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the family of the internet freedom activist to aaron swartz has accused the u.s. criminal justice system for his death of the twenty six year old co-founder of social news website reddit committed suicide on friday by hanging himself. faced criminal hacking charges which carried a potential sentence of more than thirty years in jail for downloading and publishing academic papers online in an open letter his relatives claim the harsher way of charges contributed to his death saying that the young activist was driven to the edge by the government's handling of the case. and egyptian court has ordered the retrial of the ousted president hosni mubarak it follows an appeal he lodged against his life sentence in his former interior minister who's also want to reach trial with both found guilty over the deaths of protesters during the arab spring uprising of two thousand and eleven and despite today's ruling both are expected to remain in custody. you know just a few minutes here on our we take an exhilarating trip to the shores of the white sea certainly hope you can st
the family of the internet freedom activist to aaron swartz has accused the u.s. criminal justice system for his death of the twenty six year old co-founder of social news website reddit committed suicide on friday by hanging himself. faced criminal hacking charges which carried a potential sentence of more than thirty years in jail for downloading and publishing academic papers online in an open letter his relatives claim the harsher way of charges contributed to his death saying that the...
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swartz the renowned internet internet activist who is facing a good amount of jail time for for what he's accused of hacking into a computer database and trying to distribute that information out of people saying that in that case that was prosecutorial overage so we are seeing a lot of. harsh penalties for for these kinds of computer computer crimes so do you think that maybe it's time that the laws that they need to be strengthened to determine you know what exactly is it is a cyber attack and what the appropriate penalties are. most definitely i think the really tough part is if you look back in the one nine hundred ninety s. that you look back maybe ten years or so many times that penalties were not very at the time and with anything there always tends to be a whiplash or kind of a backlash over time and i think that's what you're seeing here is because there's been so many reports in the news that even simply doing a port scan or maybe simply starting to talk about something that you may have found that could be a vulnerability of people we're very sensitive to that today very i
swartz the renowned internet internet activist who is facing a good amount of jail time for for what he's accused of hacking into a computer database and trying to distribute that information out of people saying that in that case that was prosecutorial overage so we are seeing a lot of. harsh penalties for for these kinds of computer computer crimes so do you think that maybe it's time that the laws that they need to be strengthened to determine you know what exactly is it is a cyber attack...
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warner: aaron swartz, found dead friday of an apparent suicide at the age of 26, was a prodigy of the digital age. at 14, the programmer helped develop r.s.s., a popular system to subscribe to breaking content on the web. he went on to help develop the social news sharing sight reddit. and he crusaded to make data stored in databases more available to the public. that cause led to his arrest in 2011 for hacking into a scholarly database known as j-store through the m.i.t. network. j.-store or kiefdz and distributes academic articles to subscribers. swartz surreptitiously downloaded nearly 5 million of them. he was to be tried this spring on 13 federal felony accounts which carried hefty fines and prison time. swartz who had battled depression hanged himself. for more about him and the reaction to his death we turn to kevin paulson the senior editor at wired magazine charged with hacking himself some 25 years ago, he knew swartz personally. thank you for being with us. tell us first about swartz. the impact he had on the web and on people who used the web. >> well, it was enormous. if
warner: aaron swartz, found dead friday of an apparent suicide at the age of 26, was a prodigy of the digital age. at 14, the programmer helped develop r.s.s., a popular system to subscribe to breaking content on the web. he went on to help develop the social news sharing sight reddit. and he crusaded to make data stored in databases more available to the public. that cause led to his arrest in 2011 for hacking into a scholarly database known as j-store through the m.i.t. network. j.-store or...